The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event.
UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow
A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries
May 11, 2000Cathy Palmer, English and Comparative Literature Librarian
& Lorelei Tanji, Arts Librarian
The UC Irvine Libraries
Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. on order for Main
Thieves of Paradise. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. Main PS 3561 O455 T45
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977-1989. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. Main PS 3561 O455 N46 1993 (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1994)
Magic City. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. Main PS 3561 O455 M34 1992
February in Sydney. (Chapbook), Matchbooks, 1989.
Dien Cai Dau. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. Main PS 3561 O455 D5 1988
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. Main PS 3561 O455 I2 1986
Toys in a Field. (Chapbook), Black River Press, 1986
Copacetic. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1984. Main PS 3561 O455 C6 1984
Premonitions of the Bread Line. M.F.A. Thesis, Creative Writing. Irvine: University of California, 1980. Main Lib LD 791.8 .E5 1980 K6
Lost in the Bonewheel Factory. Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1979. Main Special Collections Small Press PS 3561 O455 L68
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews and Commentaries. edited by Radiclani Clytus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Main PS3561.O455 Z463 2000
The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology. co-edited with J.A. Sascha Feinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Main PS595.J34 S43 1996
The Jazz Poetry Anthology. co-edited with J.A. Sascha Feinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Main PS 595 J34 J39 1991
"Sloth," "Envy," "Pride," "Lust," "Gluttony," "Avarice," "Anger". Poetry 175 (October 1999): 31-37. Main PS 301 P6. Full text available CDL/MELVYL Magazine and Journal Articles
"The 17-year Locust," "The God of Variables Laments," "Neither/Nor," "Yesteryear," "The Goddess of Quotas Laments." Triquarterly 105 (Spring-Summer 1999): 13-17. Full text available CDL/MELVYL Magazine and Journal Articles
"Spirit Traps," "April's Fool," "The Business of Angels," "The Procuress (after Honthorst)." Southern Review 35 (Winter 1999): 54-56. Main AP 2 S8555. Full text available CDL/MELVYL Magazine and Journal Articles
"Buddy's Monologue." Brilliant Corners: A Magazine of the Arts. (Summer 1999): 26-29.
"Body of a Woman," "Chastity Belt," "The Lure," "Pan," "Hydraulics," "The Congo Snake." Kenyon Review 20 (1998): 1-4. Main AP2 K426
"Infidelity," "Lime," "The Devil's Workshop," "Philosopher's, Incorporated." Poetry 172 (June 1998): 135-137. Main PS 301 P6. Full text available CDL/MELVYL Magazine and Journal Articles
"The Tally," "Heroes of Waterloo," "The Trapper's Bride," "A Story," "Strands," "Red Dust," "Bennelong's Blues." Calloloo 20 (Winter 1997): 28-35. Main NX 506 C34. Available online through Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cal/
"Cante Jondo," "Delano's Dilemma," "To Beauty," "Succubus," "Forgive and Live," "The Money House," "Lingua Franca," "Homage to a Bellhop." American Poetry Review 25 (January-February 1996): 3-5. Main Microfilm S000310. Full text available CDL/MELVYL Magazine and Journal Articles
"Semantics," "Russian Phantasia," "Homunculus," "Homo Erectus," "Speed Ball," "Dia de los Muertos," "Complicity," "Queensland, Inc." New England Review 16 (Winter 1994): 148-153. Main PN 2 N4
"Butterfly-toed Shoes," "Modern Medea," "Basilique." African American Review 26 (Summer 1992): 213-214. Main E 185.5 N35
"Immolatus," "Seasons Between Yes and No," "Little Man Around the House." Ploughshares 17 (Winter 1991) 65-66. Main AP 2 P73
Kelly, Robert, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Matthews. "Jazz and Poetry: A Conversation." Georgia Review, 46, n 4 (Winter 1992): 645-661.
Tal, Kali, Pratt, John Clark, Balaban, John, Ehrhart, W. D., Brown, D. F., Komunyakaa, Yusef; Ritterbusch, Dale. "War, Poetry, and Ethics: A Symposium." War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 10 (Fall-Winter1998) 5-41.
Bly, Robert, ed. The Best American Poetry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. "The Scrapegoat" Main PS 615 B474 1999
Kitchen, Judith and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. "The Deck" Main PS 688 I48 1999
Pinsky, Robert, ed. The Handbook of Heartbreak. New York : Rob Weisbach Books, 1998. "Facing It" Main PS 595 L57 H36 1998
Andrews, William L. et al, eds. The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. "Ia Drang Valley, " "We Never Know," "Saigon Bar Girls, 1975," "Facing It" Main PS 551 L58 1998
Tate, James, ed. The Best American Poetry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. "Jeanne Duval's Confession" Main PS 615 B474 1997
Rich, Adrienne, ed. The Best American Poetry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. "Nude Study" Main PS 615 B474 1996
Howard, Richard, ed. The Best American Poetry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. "Troubling the Water" Main PS 615 B474 1995
Daniels, Jim, ed. Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. "Report from the Skull's Diorama" and "Tu Do Street" Main PS 595 R32 L47 1995
Christopher, Nicolas, ed. Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975. New York: Scribners, 1994. "The Cage Walker," "Crack," and "Everybody's Reading Li Po' Silkscreened on a Purple T-Shirt" Main PS 310 C58 W35 1994
Our Souls Run Deep Like the Rivers. Rhino, February, 2000. Notable recordings of African American Poets. "Facing It," "Venus's Flytrap."
Testimony. Libretto based on the life of Charlie Parker. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, composer: Sandy Evans, forthcoming in 1999.
Thirteen Kinds of Desire. Featuring vocalist Pamela Knowles singing poems/lyrics by Yusef Komunyakaa, 1999.
Yusef Komunyakaa (with Sharon Olds), Audiotape Archives, The Academy of American Poets, 1999.
Love Notes from the Madhouse. Live recordings at Chopin Theatre, Chicago, September 12, 1997 with jazz ensemble led by John Tchicai, (poems from Neon Vernacular and Thieves of Paradise), 8th Harmonic Breakdown, Inc., 1998.
Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio. Sony Classical (SK 68368), released April 1996. Commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the formal end of the Vietnam War, this work had its world premier in Orange County on April 1995. Composed by Elliot Goldenthal, with Komunyakaa's "You and I Are Disappearing," and "Boat People" incorporated in the text. Recorded by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra with Yo Yo Ma, Carl St. Clair, Ann Panagulias, James Maddalena, Pacific Chorale, Pacific Chorale Children's Voices, and the Ngan-Khoi Vietnamese Children's Chorus.
Salas, Angela M. "Reading Our Father(s): Robert Hayden's Continuing Influence," unpublished. 1999.
Peacock, Molly, ed. How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin, 1999. "My Father's Love Letters."
Stein, Kevin, Ed. Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. Main PS310 .H57 S74 1996
Feinstein, Sascha. Jazz Poetry From the 1920s to the Present. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Main PS310 J39 F45 199
Gotera, Vince, ed. Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. Main PS310 .V54 G67 1994
Allen Ginsberg and Friends. Series title: Poetry Heaven. Produced and directed by Juan Mandelbaum, Thirteen/WNET, 1998: "You and I Are Disappearing," "Thanks," and "Facing It."
Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African American Writers. Written by Al Young. San Francisco: The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, SFSU 1994.
Saturnalia. Libretto in collaboration with composer T. J. Anderson for Northwestern University, forthcoming in 1999.
Fire Water Paper. Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa, Conductor at Symphony Hall (Boston, April 4 & 6, 1996), Carnegi Hall (New York, April 10 & 11, 1996), and The Kennedy Center (Washington D.C. April 13, 1996).
Writer and Performer of Tenebrae, a memorial to Indiana University Percussion Professor Richard Johnson, in collaboration with the Indiana University Percussion Ensemble, directed by William Roberts (Recital Hall and Indiana University Fine Arts Museum, February 18 & 24, 1991).
Yusef Komunyakaa. URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/komunyakaa/ On the Internet Poetry Archive website, URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/index.html Selected poetry and soundfiles of readings that took place on April 3-5 as part of the 1998 North Carolina Literary Festival. Soundfiles of panelists discussing Komunyakaa's works. Brief biography and select bibliography.
Yusef Komunyakaa. URL: http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/ykomufst.htm On the Academy of American Poets website, URL: http://www.poets.org/index.html Sound file of Komunyakaa reading "My Father's Love Letters".
"Overhand the Hammers Swing: Poems of Work," Philip Levine, curator. Academy of American Poets--Poetry Exhibits. URL: http://www.poets.org/lit/exh/ex005fst.htm Text of "The Whistle" by Komunyakaa.
"Poetry Chat," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, April 28, 1998. Komunyakaa reads from his works, Catherine Bowman comments. URL: http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=4%2F28%2F1998&PrgID=2
"Yusef Komunyakaa and Judale Carr," Zip-Zap E-Zine, Issue no. 3, 1996/97 URL: http://www.dnai.com/~zipzap/zissue3/april/sydney.html Six Komunyakaa poems ("February in Sydney," "Birds on a Powerline," "When in Rome - Apologia," "When Loneliness Is A Man," "Salt," and "The Plea") paired with paintings by Judale Carr. Curated by Kim Addonizio.
"About Yusef Komunyakaa," Ploughshares, Spring 1997. A profile by Susan Conley, which Komunyakaa edited URL: http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/Spring1997/Yusef_Profile.html